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March 21, 2013 01:25:44pm |
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Re: TDIH - Under the Radar '73 Show |
Indeed spring '73 tends to be under the radar. Some inspired, bouncy playing sans alot of the road-weary, coked out meltdowns that characterize December of that year for example.
As a born and raised upstate New Yorker I always got a kick out of how they played Utica, of all places, back then. 'Why Jerry why?'Never understood it but think it's really cool they did nonetheless.
Just goes to show the economics of rock 'n roll were different back then I guess.
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March 21, 2013 02:14:17pm |
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The next night features extraordinary versions TLEO,Deal,Bird Song,Jack Straw,PITB,Other One and China Doll.As good a two night stand as they did at any point in 73'.
This post was modified by jerlouvis on 2013-03-21 21:14:17
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March 21, 2013 02:25:22pm |
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That's the other thing: back to back nights! In Utica. In February. Ridiculous. Have always been tickled by that.
Their early '73 travels took them to several prominent eastern cities, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore among them; even Rochester and Buffalo are large compared to Utica. But they played no back-to-backers in any of those places.
In fact they NEVER did so in Syracuse or Buffalo and didn't get around to it in Rochester till '85. Go freakin' figure.
Gotta be a story there but those still alive to tell it are too burned out to have any idea. Weir can't find his shoes these days for cryin' out loud.
Oh well.
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March 21, 2013 02:53:32pm |
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They did do a 2-night run at the University of Illinois in February '73 - another odd spot, since they generally didn't bother with Illinois outside of Chicago. Then March 15, 16 & 19 at Nassau - Nassau's understandable! (I think the 19th was added after the first two shows sold out.)
I like how in the winters, Jan/Feb, the Dead usually headed for the midwest. They must have liked seeing snow.
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March 22, 2013 08:58:01am |
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When the 'Fieldhouse jam' surfaced for the Jerry memorial in '95 I remember thinking,'Those guys were in a cornfield in Iowa, in February?' Nah, no way. Tapes got mislabeled or something. Sure at a spring festival ala the May Iowa appearance a few months later but not in the dead of mid-winter.
I think of those Utica gigs in connection with stops they made the previous fall in places like Kansas City, KS and Wichita. Those could not have been routine stops on whatever the rock 'n roll circuit amounted to in those days. Pretty cool (especially for those that lived there) and I've just always wanted to know more about how they came to pass.
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http://archive.org/details/gd73-02-24.sbd.elliot.11929.sbeok.shnfThis post was modified by Reade on 2013-03-22 15:58:01
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March 21, 2013 03:02:31pm |
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"Road-weary coked-out meltdowns".... You must be referring to shows like 12/2 and 12/6/73, two of the finest of the year! (Or 12/19, one of my favorite meltdowns.) Sigh...
I admit the jams were really sweet in early '73 though. Some of those Dark Stars are really pristine & beautiful, like 2/22 or 3/16... And you can't find a bad Playing from that period.
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March 21, 2013 03:31:18pm |
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Those are great shows, harbingers of what was to come in Feb 74. As it happens today I've been listening to 12/1 (someone pointed out that a matrix was available so I went back to the SBD)and rediscovered how good the UJB out of Playin' is.
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March 21, 2013 05:06:10pm |
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I knew I'd be hearing about that crack!
god love those meltdowns and their fans.... just count me as one for whom a very little bit of that stuff goes a long way.
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March 21, 2013 05:37:17pm |
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12/19's Other One is kind of enigmatic to me; I don't think the pre-verses jamming is anything special; it slowly builds into a bubbly jazz jam but doesn't really reach any kind of x-factor.
The meltdown/space is anything but rote though; one of the most awesome meltdowns they ever did imo. Sometimes these can get tiresome or taken too far out into dreamy nothingness for my tastes, but this one has a succinct and ferocious attack that make it one of the best.
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March 21, 2013 06:44:37pm |
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The 12/19/73 Other One is all about the meltdown!
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March 21, 2013 05:29:07pm |
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I agree this one's overlooked. I actually like it a bit better than the night after. HCS is an excellent early version of the song; it just has an exuberance that many of the versions from fall don't.
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